"Murphy's Law: The More Things Change, The More They Don’t" Topic

"It's been over a century since World War 1 broke out in 1914 and four years of intense fighting ushered in yet another dramatic shift in the way war are fought. This 20th century style included machine-guns, accurate long-range artillery, air support, new "dispersed" infantry tactics, armored vehicles, aircraft, chemical weapons, and, for the first time, more people killed in combat than by disease and other non-combat causes. At the same time combat casualties grew enormously, largely because so many additional, and very lethal, weapons became available.

Over the last three decades there has been another transformation in ground combat. Call it the age of heavy infantry or 21st century style. Heavy not just in weight carried into combat but in the enormous growth in the number of tools the infantry have at their disposal. Troops are frequently carrying 50 kg/110 pounds or more. That means they cannot move as fast as less well-equipped opponents, and when they try to, they tire faster and get frustrated, and often injured by the enemy or by the sheer physical stress of hustling with all that weight on them. Long term, troops are developing the kind of physical stress injuries athletes are prone to (eventually) when they overdo it…

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Armand

The title doesn't state Murphy's Law. Murphy's Law is that if anything can possibly go wrong it will, at the worst possible moment.

Notice that it's not called Murphy's Theory.

Damn Straight! No "Law" has ever been more definitively, permanently, and depressingly proven than that of Brother Murphy.

TVAG

Murphy… A small story about is law. A few weeks ago I would transport some boards on my car. There had been no rain for a few weeks. I planned to cover the boards anyway but forgot. All I prayed for was no rain between six in the evening and midnight. At five it started to pour… Really, really pour down. And it stayed that way for seven hours…

All I could do was laugh… It has not rained since.

Murphy's Law is the tittle of the series of articles of which this is one.
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr is the person who originally wrote "plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose " in 1849.

(smile)

Armand